Staten Island, New York
Alice Austen House
The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Bluestockings Bookstore
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
Brooklyn, New York
Erasmus Hall High School
A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.
Brooklyn, New York
Coney Island Mermaid Parade
The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.
New York, New York
Seaman-Drake Arch
Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.
Bronx, New York
Van Cortlandt Park Monoliths
Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.
Brooklyn, New York
The Tomb of Jane Griffith
A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.
New York, New York
Death Avenue Plaque
Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.
New York, New York
Nathan Hale Hanging Site
A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Queens, New York
Valencia Movie House
The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.
Brooklyn, New York
Webster Place
A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
Steinberg Sculpture Garden
A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.
Queens, New York
Bayside Cemetery
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.
Brooklyn, New York
Newtown Creek Nature Walk
Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.
Brooklyn, New York
Bensonhurst Statue House
One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.
New York, New York
Dyckman Farmhouse
This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.
New York, New York
Bennett Park
The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.
Brooklyn, New York
McGovern Weir Greenhouse
One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
Queens, New York
The Abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
New York, New York
The Oldest Fence in New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
Queens, New York
Calvary Cemetery
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Brooklyn, New York
Kingsland Wildflowers
Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.
New York, New York
Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
